I can definitely believe that, but I don't believe the sudden brake failure can be caused by uneven tyre wear. (mechanics.stackexchange.com)
My question is why are the rear tyres wearing so fast if there is no problem - never before experienced this in 50 years of driving front wheel drive cars. (carbuyer.co.uk)
Instead, we chose to focus our efforts around tyre wear, and that ended up being a great call. (evo.co.uk)